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Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale Folio 49r 1 of 3 folios

¶ The wordes of the Hoost to the compaignye ~

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Ovre hoost saugh wel / that the brighte Sonne

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The Ark of his Artificial day hath ronne

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The ferthe part and half an houre and moore

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And thougħ / he were nat depe ystert in loore

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He wiste / it was the eighte and twentithe day

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Of Apriƚƚ / that is messager to May

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And saugħ wel / that the shadwe of euery tree

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Was as in lengthe / the same quantitee

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That was the body erect that caused it

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And therfore / by the shadwe / he took his wit

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That Phebus / which þ^t shoon / so clere and brigħte

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Degrees / was fyue and fourty clombe on higħte

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And for that day / as in that latitude

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It was ten at the clokke / he gan conclude

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And sodeynly / he plighte his hors aboute

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¶ Lordynges quod he / I warne yow al this route

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The fourthe party of this day is gon

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Now for the loue of god / and of Seint Ioħn

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Leseth no tyme / as ferforth as ye may

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Lordynges / the tyme wasteth nygħt and day

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And steleth from vs / what pryuely slepynge

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And what thurgh necligence / in oure wakynge

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As dooth the streem / that turneth neuere agayn

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Descendynge / fro the montaigne in to playn

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¶ Wel kan Senec and many a philosophre

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Biwaillen tyme / moore than gold in cofre

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For losse of catel / may recouered be

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But losse of tyme / shendeth vs quod he

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It wol nat come agayn / with outen drede

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Namoore / than wole Malkynes maydenhede

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Whan she hath lost it in hir wantownesse

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Lat vs nat mowlen thus in ydelnesse

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¶ Sir man of lawe quod he / so haue ye blis

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Telle vs a tale anon / as forward is

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Ye been submytted / thurgh youre free assent

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To stonden in this cas / at my Iuggement

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Acquiteth yow now / of youre biheeste

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Thanne / haue ye do youre deuoir atte leeste

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¶ Hoost quod he / depardieux ich assente

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To breke forward / is nat myn entente

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Biheste is dette / and I wole holde fayn

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Al my biheste / I kan no bettre sayn

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 10 September 2024].

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